The Seasonal Cookery Book: A Comprehensive Guide to the Whole Art of Modern Cookery Arranged According to the Seasons with Typical Menus for Every Day of the Year and Numerous Original Recipes and Other Special Features

A pleasing copy of this very scarce seasonal cook book, illustrated with colour plates. First edition. Undated, dated from the British Library.Publisher's note inserted to the half title page, "This edition is specially prepared for subscribers".In the publisher's original cloth binding.Beautifully illustrated throughout, including a colour frontispiece, six colour plates, and twenty-three double-sided monochrome plates. Collated, complete.This bright volume provides instruction for a large variety of recipes, organised into each season of the year and prefixed with menus for every day of each month. Dishes include shepherd's pie in spring, peach trifle in summer, pork and apple pie in autumn, and date pudding in winter. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with mild rubbing and bumping to the extremities. A couple marks to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. With minor offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean. Near Fine.